At the dawn of time, during the early days of the Internet, those of us who are old enough to have been there used to spend a lot of time on IRC. In the multiple-IM (Instant Messenger) world of today, IRC might seem a little passé but boy did we enjoy hooking up with people [...]
Everybody and their grandmother today knows that two of the key players to watch out for new stuff (I hesitate to say innovations since some might disagree :p) are Google and Microsoft. But the question usually is, how do you know what they’ve each got brewing at their respective camps? Sure, you know about the [...]
If you’re using the public beta 2 of Office 2007, the Send a Smile software is something you have to install :) Don’t take my word for it – just try it out. It basically allows you to click on a smile (or a frown) icon on your system tray area to send instant [...]
By now, you’ve probably heard the news that Office 2007 beta 2 is publicly available for download. (If you hadn’t heard the news, then you can download it from here). Unless you’d been living under a rock for the past year or so, you have also probably heard about all the new UI [...]
Back in early 1982, Ottawa (Canada’s capital) city’s transit system was trying out a new service whereby you could call a phone number and find out when the next bus for your stop (coded with a unique number) would be arriving. The way the system worked was that you called a unique phone number for [...]
This is a dummies guide to converting your PC as a web server. We will be installing a Apache web server, PHP and My SQL database server. These are the same things that are installed on my linux server, hence I would recommend these as well. Without much delay, lets get started.
Now that the public version of the Internet is over 10 years old, most Internet-savvy people are aware of the threats of computer viruses, worms, trojan attacks, and to a lesser degree, phishing. But while it’s understandable that fraud can be commited with these means (mostly using email as a carrier), it comes as a [...]
The Second Browser War
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6.0 reigned supreme at the beginning of the 21st century, its rival Netscape crushed, the Browser Wars of the 1990s over. The “Evil Empire” had won, to the dismay of Microsoft’s rivals. With Netscape gone, and most Macintosh users running IE for the Mac, IE had no serious competition [...]
This is an extensive guide for remote desktop using the Windows OS and DynDNS. This article should be everything you need in order to remotely use your computer. This article is co-written by Andrew McGinnis from Uniform Solutions and we hope to cover everything that you need to remotely use your computer.
On the Go
In the past 5 years or so, cell phones have become more and more commonplace. It is no longer shocking to see 12-year olds to 80-year olds wielding cell phones and chatting away on the go. These phones are categorized based on what technology they use. 1G implies the use of analog standards, [...]
Marketing the Unholy Trinity
It is true that Apple is an innovative company. But its genius usually lies in the way it markets its products, not the revolutionary aspects of the products themselves. More often than not Apple manages to completely miss some critical aspects and focuses merely on what they managed to do right, not [...]
FrontPage might work for some but it doesn’t work for me.
People have often asked me the differences between access and other databases. So, its my time to give a small introduction to access and the places where it could be used.
The term database means different things to different people. For many years, in the world of xBase (that is, dBASE, FoxPro, CA-Clipper), database [...]
Tar and Gzip are two of the most common utilities for archiving and compressing files. More specificly, tar is used for archiving and gzip is used for compression, however the two are most often used in conjunction.
I am a big fan of Windows. I almost like all the microsoft products. Except one, the browser, the browser that is a common name in most households . Its the one that most geeks hate, hate with all their coding power, Internet Explorer. There are tons of websites that have the hate IE campaign [...]
